PlesaLab is full of cool surprises!

Carmen, Yuki, and I representing PlesaLab from Knight Campus at #VariantEffect23 ! It's been a pleasure to see the amazing research and to share our work.

Roughly half the world's population is infected with H. pylori, a leading cause of stomach cancer. A group of UO undergraduates are working on a probiotic they hope could be a gamechanger. The iGEM team is raising funds to take their project to Paris: brnw.ch/21wCypS

The Department of Bioengineering Seminar Series continued today with Biochemistry PhD student Andrew Holston (Plesa Lab) and #KnightCampusBioe PhD student Sam Lester (Guldberg Lab) who gave talks in the Beetham Seminar Room. The seminar series is held most Mondays.

Story time! Introducing the first of several new flavors of DropSynth #genesynthesis we have been working on, cooked up by Andrew Holston and Sam Hinton. TLDR: We show multiple gene variants assembled per barcoded droplet and 1 kbp lengths. 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

At proteinsociety tonight check out poster 73 with Andrew Holston to hear about our efforts to deorphanize sensor histidine kinases en masse & poster 117 with Natanya Villegas to hear about BAR-CAT, our approach to scalable enrichment of assembled gene libraries. Knight Campus

Powerful 1st-person piece by Knight Campus Dept of Bioengineering Asst Prof Parisa Hosseinzadeh on her long road to recovery following a brain hemorrhage in Nov. 2022. We are so inspired by your strength & determination Parisa and are happy to see you growing stronger every day

Interested in antibody generation and expression of human proteins in bacteria? If you're at proteinsociety tonight check out poster 75 at Bayshore Grand Ballroom D with Sayandeep to hear about expressing the human proteome in E. coli. Knight Campus

Congratulations Natanya Villegas for winning the people’s choice award at the Oregon Bio Innovation Showcase today!!

Lab memes!

Need long-read sequencing? We’ve just completed the first ever run on University of Oregon GC3F core’s new PacBio Revio instrument! Perfect for amplicons too long for Illumina, and with Kinnex prep, you can get >10x more data. Great pricing, no queue, try it out. gc3f.uoregon.edu/pacbio-sequenc…